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Christmas poster in Seville 2022 and Proclamation of the Nativity Scene Association.

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By AndaluNet on 21/12/2022

The headquarters of the Cajasol Foundation in Seville has hosted the presentation of the Seville Christmas poster 2022, Pictorial work carried out by the Doctor of Fine Arts Jose Maria Mendez Rodriguez (Jarén), and XLV Christmas Proclamation, pronounced by Maruja Vilches Trujillo.

As every year, the Association of Belen de Sevilla has been in charge of organizing this event in collaboration with the Cajasol Foundation. The act, presented by David Caro Aguilera, Jose Luis Garcia and Susana Herrera, has had the presence on stage of the president of the Association of Belenistas of Seville, Antonio Arias, the president of the Andalusian Federation of Belenistas, Andres Quijano, the honorary president of the Association of Belen de Sevilla, Juan Jose Morilla, the director of Major Festivals of the Seville City Council, Carlos García Lara and the announcer Maruja Vílchez.

The poster is a work done in acrylic on canvas, of 81 x 116 cm. This year, the poster chosen to represent Sevillian Christmas, values the importance of the family on these very important dates. For this reason, the central theme of the poster is the representation of an excited family at the time of removing the boxes and placing the Christmas preparations, namely, the ornaments and the traditional birth.

Own Jose Maria Mendez, has recognized that "the opening of the contents of those boxes together with the day my holy Magi came, They were and are one of the most intense days of the year and that illusion of the child that we should never lose, It is the reason for my poster”.

The objects that appear in that whirlpool of illusions, bottom left to opposite end, they are tinsel, gift bow, hut, seta, yema de S. Leandro, puff pastry, FROM, Staff of Cardinal Amigo, White cross, grape, garland lights, anise popcorn, rosco de reyes, Moet Chandon champagne, CAMEL, ice cream, orange, Manzanilla Zuleta and prawn from Sanlúcar de Barrameda, chocolates, DOG, donut of wine, of them, caramel cookie, play, Ham, Teddy, Christmas greeting, Virgen del Pilar with keys of S. Peter in the mantle, OX, walnuts, holly, wrist, MELCHOR, campana, tambor, castanets, SHEEP, almirez, barley, piña, SHEPHERD, roscón bean, caramel, pacifier, laud, Bomb, BALTHAZAR, wedding rings, tambourine, S. JOSÉ, pez, saxophone, CHILD JESUS, letter of the Kings, heart, ESTRELLA, VIRGIN MARY, Guitar, anise bottle, pitcher and espadrille, Giralda, Christmas ball, bird of peace, SHEEP, angel glory, Shield of the Sta Musical Group. Mary of Hope, lottery, HEN, Souls Project emblem, rudder, FLYING BIRD, S keychain. Antonio, shield S. hermenegildo, PASTOR, Node, feeding bottle, Curro, Alfonso X coin with initials G I S, shield Association of Belenistas of Seville, emblem of the Franciscus Congress 1223-2023, Nazarene by Augustine Israel, whatsapp, Facebook, playmobil.

After intense applause and a presentation of the bronze logo by the president of the Association of Belen de Sevilla, began the proclamation of Maruja Vilches after some very moving words by José Luis García, requesting the city medal for the town crier for her life dedicated to the social work carried out in the Polígono Sur.

After starting with a walk through the Prado Museum and stopping at the painting of the Annunciation by Murillo, the town crier began to assemble her particular nativity scene in the sky.

For this, began with the landscape of Seville as a backdrop, Triana's Star ("the brave"), with his kite formed by the musicians of the Agrupación Santa María de la Esperanza del Polígono Sur (Banda Fraternity). like river, opted for the Guadalquivir, using the Alcazar of Seville as Herod's Palace, Arm yourselves with the Macarena like soldiers. The town houses of his particular nativity scene in the sky were taken from Olvera, his grandmother's town. Like Magi, proposed to characters in the world that we do not take into account. like melchior, Marin, came from romania, who asks for alms with his accordion. like gaspar, Ricardo, person who, after asking for a piece of cake, managed to establish a good relationship. For the position of Baltasar, the Senegalese Eric was proposed, handkerchief seller at a traffic light.

And as, the town crier asked for serious and forceful projects in the Polígono Sur, that make it possible to definitively eradicate poverty in that neighborhood where some 50.000 people. In it he located his particular Portal of Bethlehem, in a humble house in which he placed Saint Joseph and the Virgin, and gave birth to the Child, how it happened ago 2000 years old, dedicating a lullaby and dressing up as a shepherdess to finish.

A speech full of feeling, who managed to fill the crowded Cajasol theater with tears and laughter, who came out excited.

After delivery of the souvenir by the organization as well as a bank check for the Maruja Vilches Association for the South Polygon, ended with the promotional video for the next Franciscus International Nativity Scene Congress 2023 (www.franciscus2023.com) which will be held in Seville as the headquarters of the 29 November to 5 October 2023.

The Association of Belen de Sevilla takes more than 40 years in charge of spreading this tradition so ours, which is supported by the Seville City Council so that the nativity scene is declared an Asset of Cultural Interest by the Junta de Andalucía and Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO, just like flamingo, once declared by the Ministry of Culture in January 2022.

Source: Cajasol Foundation and Seville Newspaper